Margaret Mahy





Margaret Mahy

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born
in Whakatane, New Zealand
March 21, 1936

died
July 23, 2012

gender
female

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About this author

Margaret Mahy is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.

Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. She has written a little less than 50 novels, including the recent Alchemy in 2002. Among her children's books, A Lion in the Meadow and The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate are considered national classics. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaa...more


Average rating: 3.87 · 8,478 ratings · 1,010 reviews · 204 distinct works · Similar authors
The Changeover
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 1,525 ratings — published 1984 — 19 editions
The Seven Chinese Brothers
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions
The Tricksters
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions
Bubble Trouble
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions
The Haunting
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions
Maddigan's Fantasia
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
The Catalogue of the Universe
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions
Alchemy
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
A Lion In The Meadow
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions
Down the Back of the Chair
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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December 2009, Margaret Mahy
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? MM: Busy,tangled, full of guesswork,excited by ideas SS: What is your motto or maxim? MM: Every grain of sand is a mystery Get more on Margaret Mahy at SimonandSchuster.com..." ...More

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“It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.”
Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”
Margaret Mahy

“I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?”
Margaret Mahy, Maddigan's Fantasia

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